Impatience and uncertainty: experimental decisions predict adolescents' field behavior

We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment. We relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant redictors of health related...

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Other Authors: Sutter, Matthias (Other) , Kocher, Martin (Other) , Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela (Other) , Trautmann, Stefan T. (Other)
Format: Book/Monograph Working Paper
Language:English
Published: Innsbruck Univ. of Innsbruck, Inst. für Finanzwiss. 2010
Edition:This version: 22 December 2010
Series:Working papers in economics and statistics 2010-29
In: Working papers in economics and statistics (2010-29)

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Online Access:Verlag, Volltext: http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:inn:wpaper:2010-29
Download aus dem Internet, Stand: 02.05.2013, Volltext: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/73555
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Author Notes:Matthias Sutter, Martin G. Kocher, Daniela Rützler, and Stefan T. Trautmann
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